cap
IPA: kˈæp
noun
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A protective cover or seal.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- The top part of a mushroom.
- (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
- (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
- (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
- (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
- (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- A large size of writing paper.
- (Appalachia) Popcorn.
- (finance) Capitalization.
- (informal) An uppercase or capital letter.
- (electronics) A capacitor.
- (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
- (slang) A capsule of a drug.
- (colloquial) A capitalist.
- capillary
- (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
- A nickname for the captain of a team, ship, etc.
- A nickname for a man generally.
- Initialism of conservation action plan.
- Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
- (medicine) Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
- (computing theory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem. [Local coherence.]
- Initialism of combat air patrol. [(military, aviation) A patrolling force of fighter aircraft tasked with covering and screening a friendly asset (such as an aircraft carrier or a flight of bombers) in order to defend it from incoming hostile aircraft.]
- Initialism of change acceleration process.
- Initialism of colors and placements.
- (European Union) Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.
- (US) Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
- Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.
- (astrology, informal) Clipping of Capricorn. [(astronomy): Capricornus]
verb
- (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
- (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
- (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
- (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
- (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- (intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
- (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
- (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
- To deprive of a cap.
- (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
- (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
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